The morning news [graphic].

Description

Title: The morning news [graphic].
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 December 1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, 10th December 1812, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Artist and printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Reissue, with altered date in imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 Dec. 1772. Cf. no. 5086 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5
Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: The rabble gather round the man of news and listen with their mouths ...
Description based on imperfect impression; text below image, probably statements of responsibility, have been erased from sheet.
Watermark, partially trimmed: 1809.
The right and left edges of the lines of verse below image were erased and have been written over in pencil.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiv, p. 173.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.5 x 26 cm, on sheet 26.0 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1812
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with drypoint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dogs
City & town life
Newspapers
Subjects: Dogs
City & town life
Newspapers
England > 1772
England > London > 1812

Access: Public
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